News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 3)

The Barbie Reboot No One Asked For

First we gave Barbie a Dreamhouse. Now we’re giving her neural nets. What could possibly go wrong when Silicon Valley meets the toy aisle?

The Great Underage Logout: Australia’s War on Youth Scrolling

Australia is generally far behind the rest of the world when it comes to adopting technology, but with preventing Big Tech from getting our teens addicted to social media, they leed the charge.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: When Intelligence Becomes a Crutch

If your brain was a muscle, ChatGPT might be the comfy sofa you’re sinking into, and this new MIT study says it’s slowly atrophying your critical thinking.

AI Didn’t Kill Work—It Rewrote the Job Description

Forget replacement, AI is rewriting what it means to work. From “trust directors” to “AI plumbers,” the future belongs to those who embrace change as an opportunity, not a threat.

AI Pulls an All-Nighter—and Remembers It

Today’s AI forgets faster than your boss after a long weekend. But MIT’s new SEAL model just gave LLMs the gift of memory, and a dangerous taste for self-improvement.

Quantum’s Not Coming — It’s Already Hiring AI

Jensen Huang just admitted he was wrong about quantum. Now he says every supercomputer will soon include a QPU. Blink, and your “data center” becomes an AI factory for digital twins and robots.

Amsterdam’s AI Welfare Dream Just Became a Nightmare

Amsterdam thought AI could end welfare bias. Instead, it proved algorithms can discriminate faster, and with greater confidence.

TikTok’s Newest Influencers Aren’t Even Human

Human influencers, beware, TikTok just launched AI influencers who don’t need lunch breaks or paychecks.

Nvidia Just Bottled the Climate

We finally have a digital twin of Earth with five-kilometer precision, and our first instinct is to help insurance companies raise premiums faster.

The Death of the Click: How AI Just Erased Journalism’s Business Model

Google didn’t just change how we search, it's quietly vaporising the internet’s biggest business model, and the collapse has already begun.